The Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter writer is currently working on a script for a follow-up to the 1988 movie, and has tweeted a photo of himself in Beetlejuice gear at his computer, along with the phrase: "It's showtime."

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He told SciFiNow: "I think that you'd have to be an idiot not to be nervous about taking on something so beloved by so many people, myself included.

"Which is the precise reason why we told Warner Bros we would absolutely not even think about doing it without Michael Keaton reprising his role and without Tim's involvement and we were lucky enough to get both men to agree in theory, provided the script was strong enough that they'd at least be open to it. So we're proceeding slowly, cautiously and carefully.

"What I will say is that we are not remaking or rebooting this movie, we are absolutely doing a 26 years later sequel, and more important than that, if we don't feel like it does the first movie justice then I think it's even better not to do it, so we'll see."

Keaton is definitely in and Burton is currently in talks to direct the film...plus,it looks like Winona Ryder is also back

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"I'm kind of sworn to secrecy...But it sounds like it might be happening."

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"It's not a remake," Ryder revealed. "It's 27 years later. And I have to say, I love Lydia [Deetz, Ryder's teenage goth character] so much. She was such a huge part of me. I would be really interested in what she is doing 27 years later."

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During the interview, Ryder also acknowledged some of the trepedation that has been voiced by fans, and the fear that revisiting the property would undermine the memory of the original.

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"It's a very precious movie to people," she explained. "So there are a lot people like, 'DON'T.'"

She goes on to convey the fact that she would never be on board if Burton and Keaton were not a part of the project as well.

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"I would never go near [a sequel] if it was not Tim and Michael," she said. "Because those guys, I love."

Chatting to MTV News about the project, Keaton confirmed that "Iíve e-mailed Tim a couple of times, talked to the writer a couple of times, but all really, really preliminary stuff. I always said thatís the one thing Iíd like to do again, if I ever did anything again. But it kind of required Tim to be involved some way or another".

He then added that "now it looks like he is involved. And without giving too much away, we've talked to each other, and e-mailed each other, and if he's in, it's going to be hard not to be in"